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Should Democrats Have Picked A Swing State For Their 2024 Convention?
[ad_1] Democrats recently chose to hold their 2024 convention in Chicago. Scott Olson / Getty Images By all accounts, the race for the 2024 Democratic National Convention was down to Atlanta versus Chicago. Electorally, it seemed like an obvious choice: Atlanta is in an emerging swing state, while Chicago is in a state that Democrats…
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Americans Disagree On The Definition Of Art
[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. What is art? According to the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the activity of art is “to evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or…
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Why A Democratic Legislator From North Carolina Became A Republican
[ad_1] Transcript Nathaniel Rakich: After the 2022 election, North Carolina Democrats had reason to celebrate. They had prevented Republicans from winning a supermajority in the North Carolina state House by a single seat. As a result, there was nothing Republicans could do if Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed their legislation. But on April 5, state…
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Are Americans OK? | FiveThirtyEight
[ad_1] According to Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index, the negative emotion consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have subsided to a large degree. According to recent data, 17 percent of Americans said they were lonely “a lot of the day yesterday,” down from a pandemic high of 25 percent. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight…
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Politics Podcast: Americans Are Feeling Better These Days
[ad_1] According to Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index, the negative emotional consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have subsided to a large degree. According to recent data, 17 percent of Americans said they were lonely “a lot of the day yesterday,” down from a pandemic high of 25 percent. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight…
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Why An Aging Population Might Not Doom The American Economy
[ad_1] Mario Tama / Getty Images The American economy is booming and robust. Just look at the chart below, which shows that the overall unemployment rate — the share of people within the labor force who are without work but are looking for it — is lower than it’s been in more than 50 years:…
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Trump Leads DeSantis In Our 2024 Republican Primary Polling Average
[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Today, FiveThirtyEight is launching our national polling average for the 2024 Republican presidential primary. It shows former President Donald Trump receiving 49.3 percent of the national vote and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has not officially entered the race) receiving 26.2 percent. Former Vice President Mike…
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Virtual Abortions Surged After Roe Was Overturned — But The Texas Ruling Could Change That
[ad_1] Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images In the months since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic, more and more women have safely ended their pregnancies at home, without ever setting foot in an abortion clinic. Between the pre-Dobbs period and the post-Dobbs period, the number…
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Do You Buy That … Last Week’s Election In Wisconsin Was The Most Important Election Of 2023?
[ad_1] Nate Silver breaks down the impact of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on the GOP on ABC News’s “This Week.” [ad_2]
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Over 66,000 People Couldn’t Get An Abortion In Their Home State After Dobbs
[ad_1] Around 66,510 people were unable to receive a legal abortion in their home state between July and December of 2022. Of those, 35,330 seem to have traveled to obtain one. ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images A few weeks ago, Jessica Marchbank got a call from a woman whose abortion had just been…